From 7451339a5c77827cc32ee06ec75ce1de1ffebb4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Ogness Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:42:17 +0200 Subject: fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping commit fd7d56270b526ca3ed0c224362e3c64a0f86687a upstream. Commit 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat") stopped reporting eip/esp because it is racy and dangerous for executing tasks. The comment adds: As far as I know, there are no use programs that make any material use of these fields, so just get rid of them. However, existing userspace core-dump-handler applications (for example, minicoredumper) are using these fields since they provide an excellent cross-platform interface to these valuable pointers. So that commit introduced a user space visible regression. Partially revert the change and make the readout possible for tasks with the proper permissions and only if the target task has the PF_DUMPCORE flag set. Fixes: 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in> /proc/PID/stat") Reported-by: Marco Felsch Signed-off-by: John Ogness Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Tycho Andersen Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Al Viro Cc: Linux API Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87poatfwg6.fsf@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [ zhangyi: 68db0cf10678 does not merged, skip the task_stack.h for 4.4] Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/proc/array.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c index 618c83f1866d..c3e1732bcaa5 100644 --- a/fs/proc/array.c +++ b/fs/proc/array.c @@ -429,7 +429,15 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, * esp and eip are intentionally zeroed out. There is no * non-racy way to read them without freezing the task. * Programs that need reliable values can use ptrace(2). + * + * The only exception is if the task is core dumping because + * a program is not able to use ptrace(2) in that case. It is + * safe because the task has stopped executing permanently. */ + if (permitted && (task->flags & PF_DUMPCORE)) { + eip = KSTK_EIP(task); + esp = KSTK_ESP(task); + } } get_task_comm(tcomm, task); -- cgit v1.2.3